svshot.exe ???

[Guest]

Hi to all

Just a simple question to better manage my win 2K Pro

Who can tell me what is svshot.exe

In the program list I can see several instances of this system prog. Some of them use until 61 Mo ram. I use very often a P2P soft to DL softwares and AVI files. Is is a normal situation to have 4 or 5 instance of this program

My system use a AMD Athlon XP2200+ processor and sometimes I've some perf prob. The system uses until 450 Mo RAM just for having the P2P soft running

Thanks to everybody for my information

Francisco.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If you've spelt the offending file's name correctly (svshot.exe),
it's probably a virus or backdoor supplied along with your P2P
application. It's certainly not a valid Windows file.

If you've mis-spelt the file name and meant "svchost.exe," It's
perfectly normal to have several instances of Svchost.exe running
simultaneously.

Description of Svchost.exe in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q250320

However, if Svchost.exe is using a large portion of your CPU
cycles, it has most likely been "hijacked" by a worm or Trojan. Have
you tried using a decent antivirus application with the most
currently-available virus definition files? A strong candidate would
be W32.Welchia.Worm.

W32.Welchia.Worm a.k.a. W32/Nachi.Worm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.html

Because many of the newer viruses and worms can disable antivirus
applications whose definitions weren't up-to-date, try using one or
more of the free on-line scanners to double-check your system.

Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

McAfee Security - FreeScan
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp


Bruce Chambers
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